List Of 55 Philosophical Quotes About Life, Love, Time, And Death:
#1 Rumi
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
#2 Yasutani Roshi
“The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.”
#3 Jim Carrey
”I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.”
#4 Bertrand Russell
”To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.”
#5 Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
#6 Charles M. Schulz
”I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.”
#7 Robert Anton Wilson
“I don’t believe anything, but I have many suspicions.”
#8 Hermann Hesse
“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
#9 Terence McKenna
“Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?”
#10 Abraham Lincoln
”The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
#11 Richard P. Feynman
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
#12 Allen Ginsberg
“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”
#13 Laurence J. Peter
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
#14 Thomas Jefferson
”I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
#15 Ernest Hemingway
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
#16 May Sarton
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
#17 Ludwig van Beethoven
”Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
#18 Anthony Hopkins
”My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.”
#19 David Foster Wallace
“I’d tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear.”
#20 Winston Churchill
”Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
#21 Margaret Mead
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
#22 Pablo Picasso
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
#23 Anne Frank
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
#24 John Adams
”I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
#25 Dalai Lama
”This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
#26 Terry Johnson
“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
#27 Chuck Klosterman
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
#28 Nicolas Chamfort
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
#29 Benjamin Franklin Wade
“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
#30 Mahatma Gandhi
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
#31 Søren Kierkegaard
“What labels me, negates me.”
#32 Elayne Boosler
”My fashion philosophy is, if you’re not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.”
#33 Joseph Campbell
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
#34 Kurt Vonnegut
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
#35 Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
#36 Lao Tzu
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
#37 Ursula K. Le Guin
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
#38 Kahlil Gibran
“Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
#39 William James
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
#40 Franz Kafka
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
#41 Socrates
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
#42 Mo Willems
“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
#43 Anton Chekhov
”Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.”
#44 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”
#45 Carl Jung
“What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.”
#46 Frank Zappa
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
#47 Hank Stram
”My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.”
#48 Epictetus
”The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”
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#49 Edgar Allan Poe
”Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
#50 Alexander the Great
”For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.”
#51 Dr. Seuss
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
#52 Patrick Ness
“You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
#53 William S. Burroughs
“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on. ”
#54 Plato
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
#55 Isaac Asimov
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
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